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⌈ Secret Post #4548 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

My two cents coming at you.

I think it's a real and shitty trend that minor characters are there for representation and for very little else, and major characters aren't part of canon representation storylines for the most part.

These representational characters show up every couple of episodes to be gay or asian and have maybe one other skill or personality trait like being good at computers or being the supportive friend that a main character can come to about their own problems. Oh, and they will probably be killed off for angst to further a more important storyline.

As a person from a minority it sucks that I know like three things in canon about a character that people expect me to feel some sort of connection to. It sucks when a new series starts and the writers tease that there's going to be a storyline involving some sort of representation, and surprise, it ends up involving none of the characters that the writers have spent time establishing as individuals with their own histories and families and emotional trials. It would be easy to reveal a main character as bi or jewish or as having a chronic illness, but then they'd risk alienating an already invested audience, most of whom are not part of that minority so like, what if they can't relate now that the character isn't like them!?

It's disappointing and I shouldn't have to feel grateful or pretend to be invested in characters that are clearly just there to satisfy a diversity quota and relationships that happen mostly off-screen.

[(Anonymous)]

I agree with the basic gist of your comment, but it's still true that many of the people clamoring for "representation" actually mean "their OTP".

I once commented in a Teen Wolf discussion that canonical Sterek would be great, but so would a canonically bi Stiles who dated some other guy on the show, or canonical Scott/Isaac. And my comment got slammed with downvotes from fans who'd previously been arguing that Sterek would be amazing for representation, but who refused to acknowledge that other ships involving the fan favorite character (Stiles) and/or the actual main character of the show (Scott) would be no less amazing for representation.